TEACHING MATERIALS

X. TEACHING MATERIALS

Teaching materials are the resources a teacher uses to deliver instruction. Each teacher requires a range of tools to draw upon in order to assist and support student learning. These materials play a large role in making knowledge accessible to a learner and can encourage a student to engage with knowledge in different ways.

Some of the most useful teaching materials are: 

1- Posters: porters are very useful when teaching because they help the teacher to call student´s attention, for posters contain no letter, just pictures, and they are also colorful. poster can be made with recyclable paper, color paper, drawings, pictures or printed images.

2- Charts: Charts are the most common teaching material used for teachers. Though charts are very useful to teach, if they are not well made, they can be a disaster. Some of the things that we need to take in to account when making charts is that the letter needs to be big enough for everyone to see it, it has to be legible, and it does not have to contain spelling mistakes.

3- Cartoon strips: Cartoon strips are very interesting and can be really useful to teach. You can use them to teach a series of classes. You can start one day just with two or three images and continue adding more the following days, so students will be expecting for new images and for what they are going to learn that day. One hings that we need to take in to account with this is that if they are not colorful or creative enough for kids, they will lose interesting in that and will get bored easily. 

4- Puppets: Puppets can be really interesting for kids, but the problem is that they are a little bit hard to do and sometimes kids already know that it is the teacher who is holding the puppets, so they sometimes try to grab them when the teacher is using them. When that happens, the teacher can no longer use them because students do not pay attention to the class anymore. 

Every teaching material has its advantages and disadvantages. The most common ones are the lack of creativity, and the miss used of them. To create a good chart or, poster, or any teaching material, you need to think about what you are going to teach and how you want to do it, then think about the size of it and do not be afraid of using colors, kids really like that, but be careful to because sometimes less is more.